Amador García Cabrera (better
known as Amador) was born in Barcelona, Spain on 13th July 1934. Cabrera
describes himself as the "consumate agency sketcher".

Cabrera worked as an electrician, a
mechanic, an offset printer and various other activities before his close
friend Antonio Romero encouraged him to draw. Finally finding his true
field, he took samples of his work to show to Josep Toutain, then owner
of the Spanish artwork agency Selecciones Ilustradas (known as S.I.).
Toutain hired him on an "as required" basis in 1959 - and he
soon became a regular "agency artist" performing work for many
domestic and foreign publishers. Cabrera has only ever worked on receipt
of a script, and whilst acknowledging the aclaim that this has given him,
today he still rails against what he sees as the "industrialisation
of art" and the unsure legal position of never having a proper contract
of employment.

For the S.I. agency he drew Hazañas
del Oeste (Toray - 1959), Davy Crockett (for
the French reviewVaillant - 1960), Donely
Rock (in 1961), and then followed one script after another. Soon
he was drawing for Fleetway (Dogfight Dixon - 1961, Air Ace
- 1969, Humbert Higs - Hotspur 1970), and
even did a strip biography of footballer Kevin Keegan. By the 1970's he
was firmly established as a cover artist for D.C. Thompson's Commando
war comics.

Over the years Cabrera has worked on
innumerable series' as well as for many foreign publishers, like Semic
(Sweden), Bastei and Koralle-Verlag (Germany), Holgo (Holland) and Western
(USA). His work has also appeared in Creepy magazine
and several U.S. horror comics.